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2014-01-14 Home Front: WoT
Who Is Behind The "Close-Gitmo" Push?
In short, the other red-green alliance: Communists and jihadis, each quite certain it is the senior partner.
[FoxNews] The key players:

Amnesia Amnesty International. Along with Human Rights Watch
... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world...
, Amnesia Amnesty International was revealed as partner organization to Al Karama, a human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
non-profit run by Qatar's Abdul Rahman Omeir Al-Naimi.

Al-Naimi was recently exposed by the U.S. Treasury Department in December 2013 as a long-term major financier of Al Qaeda. According to an expose by Eli Lake in the Daily Beast, "Terrorists for Human Rights," the Treasury Department's designation said he, "oversaw the transfer of hundreds of thousands of dollars to Al Qaeda and its affiliates in Iraq, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen over the last 11 years."

Center for Constitutional Rights. CCR was founded by far-left civil rights lawyer William Kunstler in the 1960s, a man who told the press his goal was to "destroy society from within."

Kunstler represented the "Chicago 7," a group that was charged with conspiracy to start a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and later he defended domestic bad boy/terror groups like the Black Panthers, Weather Underground, and Attica Prison Rioters.

CCR is currently funded by groups like the "1848 Foundation," named after the year Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto was published and revolutions swept through Europe.

Kunstler would be proud of CCR's signature work over the past decade in coordinating the "Gitmo Bar Association" of 500 lawyers representing detainees.

Reprieve. A British organization led by blogger Andy Worthington, it pressures release of British citizens and residents. Æthiopia's Binyam Mohammed, a British resident, allegedly plotted to blow up high rise apartment buildings in the U.S. with a dirty bomb; Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal, and Shafiq Rasul, a.k.a., the Tipton Three, ethnic Paks went to fight for jihad in Afghanistan but were caught by the Northern Alliance in Nov. 2001; and Shaker Aamer, a Saudi citizen with British residence, alleged to have led a unit of Al Qaeda gunnies in Tora Bora, and reportedly a former close associate of Osama Bin Laden, shoe-bomber Richard Reid and 20th hijacker, Zacharias Moussaoui.
So, pro-Brit, a good thing. But brainlessly undiscriminating, which is not at all a compliment.
World Can't Wait. This organization is believed to have been founded by members and supporters of the Revolutionary Communist Party & Anarchists. It organized at least 24,000 supporters during Iraq War, including actor Sean Penn and anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.

Jason Leopold. Leopold is a former Los Angeles Times investigative journalist with a checkered past. According to Fox News media critic Howard Kurtz, writing in a 2005 Washington Post feature, "Leopold says he engaged in 'lying, cheating and backstabbing,' is a former cocaine addict, served time for grand larceny, repeatedly tried to kill himself and has battled mental illness his whole life."
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#1 Fair is fair.
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